Week 6: "People Believe In God!'

This week we attended the ground breaking ceremony of a new Stake Center for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Solo.  This is an 18 month project which will include a cultural hall that will seat 900 people and a large chapel.  When the new construction is completed on adjacent property of the old chapel, the old church will then be remodeled and redesigned with additional classrooms and offices.  The ceremony was attended by many Muslim community leaders, Christian leaders, and the contractors and project superintendent.   It was an opportunity to see a faith filled community share the enthusiasm for this beautiful new planned building project.  Someone leaned over to me and said,  ”The wonderful thing about the country of Indonesia is that from the people who live in the Gongs to the President of the Country everyone believes in God, people do not drink alcohol and nobody has a gun."   We had a moment of silence at the beginning of the meeting so all faiths could share their personal form of prayer.  There was a unifying ceremony with food called Nasi Tumpeng a yellow rice beautiful food shared that was very interesting.  This is served when something special is to occur. Tumpeng is a way of serving rice and its side dishes in cone form, it is also called “rice cone”.  The stake president served the community leaders.  

We had a great Zone Conference of the Jawatenga Zone. President Rowley and his wife flew to Solo and there were 26 of us together being instructed on best practices of missionary work.  It was a great day.

We teach in many different areas and everywhere we go we meet people we love

We are so blessed to meet and sing and pray with wonderful families

“But charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever, and who so is found possessed of it at the last day it shall be well with him.”  Moroni 7:47  “Let us examine our lives and determine to follow the Savior’s example by being kind, loving, and charitable.  And as we do so, we will be in a better position to call down the powers of heaven for ourselves, for our families, and for our fellow travelers in this sometimes difficult journey back to our heavenly home”  Pres. Thomas S. Monson April 2017

Love, Elder and Sister Miller